Transcript EZEKIEL 33 - Crying In The Wilderness Ministry
POSTMODERNISM
A PRESENTATION OF CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS MINISTRY
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Ecclesiastes 1:9 That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So, there is nothing new under the sun.
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http://www.xenos.org/ministries/crossroads/pmandyou.htm
http://www.aletheiabaptistministries.org/ArticlesOfInterest.htm
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The Full Life study Bible, New International Version Copyright 1992 by Life Publishers International
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POSTMODERNISM
What Is It And How Does It Affect Our Mission As Christians
A PRESENTATION OF CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS MINISTRY
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POSTMODERNISM
"It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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POSTMODERNISM
"Now a new tidal wave, called by the scholars postmodernity, is sweeping across Western thought, undermining the very idea of absolute truth. What should be the response of the Christian church in the face of these waves of philosophical attack?" James R. White James R. White, The Roman Catholic Controversy (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1996), 9.
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POSTMODERNISM The Pre-modern Era
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There is a God (even if it is the god of paganism).
Good and evil exist as present realities which
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affect our lives.
Man is a sinful creature and sin must be
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accounted for.
Nature was created by a Creator.
Man is autonomous in the created world.
(Free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment)
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POSTMODERNISM The Pre-modern Era
Pre-modernism is that long period of history that led through the Dark Ages, the Reformation and up to the 1700’s.
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POSTMODERNISM The Modern Era
A reversal of the assumptions of the old pre-modern age
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The world is a closed system--All could be explained from cause and effect Utilitarian morality--Stealing is wrong but only because it interferes with the balance of economics--Slavery is right because it has economic benefits.
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POSTMODERNISM The Modern Era
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Evolution/natural selection--Nature is self contained - man is the highest product of the survival of the fittest.
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Rationalism and materialism--Only the senses contain “reality.” “Logical positivism” becomes the law of science: If we cannot see God, he does not exist.
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Social sciences and socialism--Marx’s dialectical materialism eradicated individual rights for the sake of the community.
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POSTMODERNISM The Modern Era
Modernism began in the 16 th century with the Enlightenment, brought on by the French Revolution The period, the ideology, and the malaise of the time from 1789 to 1989, from the Bastille to the Berlin Wall.
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POSTMODERNISM
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The Postmodern Era
Truth and error are no longer relevant terms. Truth We create our own truth in our own situation.
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Culture has become the garden for growing truth. Truth conforms to accepted group culture.
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Language must be deconstructed from its oppressive cultural overtones to a non-standard flow of amoral values.
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POSTMODERNISM The Postmodern Era
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Western Civilization, with its Christian culture, must be discarded and multi culturalism (pluralism) affirmed
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History has become unknowable since language is meaningless. The present and the future are the only realities there are.
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POSTMODERNISM The Postmodern Era
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The 1960’s was a great catalyst, if not the beginning of the postmodern era.
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Woodstock
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1968 was known as “The year of the student revolution” when many universities were shut down due to student takeovers.
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PRE-MODERNISM "Three strikes and you’re out and I call ‘em the way they are." MODERNISM "Three strikes and you’re out and I call ‘em the way I see ‘em." POSTMODERNISM "Three strikes and you’re out, and they ain’t nothin’ til I call em."
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Universal Truth and Relativism
"Ours is an age in which 'conclusions' are arrived at by distributing questionnaires to a cross-section of the population or by holding a microphone before the lips of casually selected passers-by in the street... Indeed, it would seem possible that the words true and
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will eventually (and logically) be replaced by the words likable and dislikable." -- Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind: How Should a Christian Think? (Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Books, 1963) p. 107.
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Religious Relativism in the United States - What Americans Believe
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64% believe, "Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Muslims and all others pray to the same God, even though they use different names for that God.“ George Barna, What Americans Believe (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1991) pp. 210-212.
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64% agree with the statement, "All religions are equally good
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Religion in America, 1996 (Princeton, NJ: The Princeton Religion Research Center, 1996) p. 74.
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What Americans Believe
62% agreed that, "It does not matter what religious faith you follow because all faiths reach similar lessons about life." George Barna, Absolute Confusion (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1994). p. 207.
72% agree, "There is no such thing as absolute truth; two people could define truth in totally conflicting ways, but both could still be correct." George Barna, Virtual America (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1994), pp. 83, 283.
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71% agree, "There are no absolute standards that apply to everybody in all situations." George Barna, Virtual America (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1994), pp. 85, 230
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Relativism in the Church
What Christians Believe
53% who claim there is no such thing as absolute truth identify themselves as born again Christians.
Barna, Virtual America (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1994), pp. 83
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42% of evangelical Christians agree, "There is no such thing as absolute truth; two people could define truth in totally conflicting ways but both could still be correct." Barna, Virtual America (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1994), pp. 83
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Relativism Among College Students
• • Kay Haugaard teaches creative writing at Pasadena City College and says she has, for more than twenty years, been teaching "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson's short story in which the citizens of a small town ritually stone one of their number to death. Jackson's story used to shock people into moral judgement. No longer, according to Ms. Haugaard. After a lengthy discussion, it became apparent that her students thought they were in no position to judge people who followed different traditions.
-- Retold by Richard J. Neuhaus, "The Public Square," First Things, December 1997, p. 77. Drawn from Kay Haugaard, "Moral Judgement," The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 27, 1997, p. B4.
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What College Students Believe
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They believe themselves unable to condemn the Holocaust or to judge it morally. They believe it happened.
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By denying themselves the moral authority to condemn such great evils of human history as the Holocaust, slavery and racial oppression, these students lose the basis for morally condemning wrongdoing anywhere...
"The Paralysis of 'Absolutophobia,'" The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 27, 1997, p. B5.
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What College Students Believe
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(soon) the truly arrogant and truly fanatical need not fear moral censure no matter what evil they choose to inflict on us all.“
"The Paralysis of 'Absolutophobia,'" The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 27, 1997, p. B5.
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What College Students Believe
For more than 50 years the danger students have been taught to fear is not error but intolerance.
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Relativism is necessary to openness; and this is the virtue, the only virtue
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The true believer is the real danger. The point is not to correct the mistakes and really be right; rather it is not to think you are ever right at all. – The Closing of the American Mind (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), p. 25 - 26
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Relativism Among Teenagers
50% of all teenagers and 30% of born-again teens agree, "It does not matter what religious faith you follow because all faiths teach similar lessons." George Barna, Generation Next: What You Should Know About Today's Youth (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1995), pp. 79, 103.
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55% of all teenagers and 36% of born-again teenagers believe, "Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Jews, and all other people pray to the same God, even though they use different names for their God." George Barna, Generation Next: What You Should Know About Today's Youth (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1995), pp. 76, 103.
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The Consequences of Relativism
On Our Children
If a teenager fails to embrace truth as an objective standard that governs their lives, a study by George Barna shows it will make them:
36 percent more likely to lie to a parent
48 percent more likely to cheat on an exam
74 percent more likely to watch MTV
3 times more likely to use illegal drugs
6 times more likely to attempt suicide
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The Consequences of Relativism
On Our Children
2 times more likely to try to physically hurt someone
2 times more likely to watch a pornographic film
2 times more likely to get drunk
2 and a quarter times more likely to steal
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The Consequences of Relativism
On Our Children
If your child fails to embrace truth as an objective standard that governs their lives; the study shows it will make them:
65 percent more likely to mistrust people
2 times more likely to be disappointed
2 times more likely to be angry with life
2 times more likely to be lacking purpose
2 times more likely to be resentful Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler, Right from Wrong (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1994), p. 18.
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This is kinda sad but remember Jesus wuvs you
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The Damage of Relativism
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When one eighth-grade teacher clarified the values of her eighth-grade low achieving class, she found that the top four values included sex, drugs, drinking and skipping school Thomas Lickona, Educating for Character (New York: Bantam Books, 1991), p. 237.
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The Case Against Relativism
"Everyone is indignant when he hears the Germans define justice as that which is to the interest of the Third Reich. But it is not always remembered that this indignation is perfectly groundless if we ourselves regard morality as a subjective sentiment to be altered at will. Unless there is some objective standard of good, over arching Germans, Japanese and ourselves alike, whether any of us obey it or not, then of course the Germans are as competent to create their own ideology as we are to create ours...Unless the measuring rod is independent of the things measured, we can do no measuring." C.S. Lewis, Christian Reflection (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1973), p. 73.
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The Nature of Truth
"The fundamental association of the Hebrew root normally translated as 'truth' or 'true' (as in 'the true God' [e.g., Jeremiah 10:10]) is 'something which can be relied upon,' or 'someone who can be trusted.'" -- McGrath, A Passion for Truth, p. 177.
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The Nature of Truth
"The true Christian...is called upon not only to teach truth but to practice truth in the midst of such relativism...Do you think our contemporaries will take us seriously if we do not practice truth? Do you think for a moment that the really serious-minded twentieth century young people -- our own youth as they go off to universities, who are taught in the fields of sociology, psychology, philosophy, etc., that all is relative -- will they take us seriously if we do not practice truth in very practical ways?" -- Frances Schaeffer, The Great Evangelical Disaster, (Westchester, IL: Crossway, 1984), p. 81.
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What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear a word you are saying
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Responding to Relativism with Truth
"The apostles asserted that Christ alone is the truth in the midst of a world that is more religiously diverse than any we have known in the West until recently." -- David Wells, No Place for Truth, Or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology? (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1993), p. 104.
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Responding to Relativism with Truth
"'Why should I go to church,' someone once said to me, 'when I have no religious needs?' I had the audacity to reply, 'Because Christianity's true...The needs religion fills are relevant to an assessment of its truth...but were it merely a matter of finding religion to be helpful, then a religious commitment would not be essentially different from a personal preference… But when something is said to be true, we have a very different situation especially, when it is said of a religion….
-- Diogenes Allen, Christian Belief in a Postmodern World: The Full Wealth of Conviction (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1989), p. 1.
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The Ultimate Claim of Christ “Intolerance?”
If you had gone to Buddha and asked him, "Are you the son of Bramah?" he would have said, "My son, you are still in the vale of illusion." If you had gone to Socrates and asked, "Are you the son of Zeus?" he would have laughed at you.
If you had gone to Mohammed and asked, "Are you the son of Allah?" he would first have rent his clothes and then cut your head off.
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The Ultimate Claim of Christ “Intolerance?”
If you had asked Confucius, "Are you Heaven?" I think he would have probably replied, "Remarks which are not in accordance with nature are in bad taste." The idea of a great moral teacher saying what Christ said is out of the question. In my opinion, the only person who can say that sort of thing is either God or a complete lunatic suffering from that form of delusion which undermines the whole mind of man." C.S. Lewis, "What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ?" God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1970). pp. 157-158.
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The Ultimate Claim of Christ “Intolerance?”
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me. John 10:30 "I and the Father are one."
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Postmodernism and You: Religion by Jim Leffel and Dennis McCallum, contributors www.xenos.org/ministries/crossroads/dotrel.htm
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Postmodernism and You: Religion Today spirituality means mystical experience, not truth. We can seek and savor any experience we please, as long as we remain inclusive and tolerant.
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The Two Cardinal Sins of Postmodern Religious Culture
Sin #1. Intolerance
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Not too long ago, intolerance meant rejecting or even persecuting practitioners of other religions.
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Not any more. Now, intolerance means questioning the validity of any aspect of another's religion.
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The Two Cardinal Sins of Postmodern Religious Culture
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To the majority of Americans below fifty today, questioning the truthfulness of another's religious views is intolerant and morally offensive. One Exception
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The Two Cardinal Sins of Postmodern Religious Culture
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Today, when people refer to "fundamentalists" they no longer mean just religious extremists like the Shiites waging holy war against the West.
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Today, fundamentalism may refer to anyone who claims to know truth or who charges another religion with falsehood.
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The Two Cardinal Sins of Postmodern Religious Culture
Sin #2. Objectivity
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Postmodernists argue that modernists use reason to exclude people. When people apply reason to religion, before long, someone's reality is being branded "false." This is not inclusive, and it is also harsh and naive, because:
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The Two Cardinal Sins of Postmodern Religious Culture
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Questioning another's beliefs implies that we can refer to an external objective reality, when in fact, reality is a social construct.
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By challenging the truth claims of another's religion, we devalue the person who is the source of his or her own truth.
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The Two Cardinal Sins of Postmodern Religious Culture
Under the banner of inclusiveness postmodern thinkers actually include all but one group-- those of us who are committed to biblical authority. According to postmodernists, fundamentalists are:
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Those who believe religious teachings are true or false, not just within their own paradigm, but over all paradigms.
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The Two Cardinal Sins of Postmodern Religious Culture
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"Fundamentalists" view religious truth as objectively true, and therefore subject to rational scrutiny.
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Evangelicals certainly fall within this circle because they believe that if something is true, its opposite cannot be true at the same time, regardless of what paradigm a person holds.
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CHRISTIANITY DEPENDS ON TRUTH
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“It must certainly be admitted, then, that Christianity does depend upon something that happened; our religion must be abandoned altogether unless at a definite point in history Jesus died as a propitiation for the sins of men. Christianity is certainly dependent upon history.” J. Gresham Machen, Christianity And Liberalism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977), 121.
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HOW DO WE STACK UP?
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Failure to see this is the cause of a very serious breakdown in modern evangelicalism.
. . We now demand glamour and fast flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals.
We have been trying to apply machine-age methods to our relations with God. . . The tragic results of this spirit are all about us A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit Of God (Harrisburg: Christian Publications, 1958), 69
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HOW DO WE STACK UP?
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If we are to “become all things to all men,” it will take more than keeping up with the postmodern Jones’. It will take asking ourselves how they think about what they see. It will take a willingness on our part to present the gospel as true, regardless of how that disturbs comfortable, unrealistic, virtual world.
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CONCLUSION
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The challenge to Christians living in postmodern times is enormous. If ever we face the danger of the frog in the slowly boiling pot, it is today.
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Os Guinness summarizes it well
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But perhaps postmodernism’s main challenge to the church is to our central mission as Christians: Following Christ and making him Lord in all of life.
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The church another cannot customer become center that simply offers designer religion and catalogue spirituality to the hoppers and shoppers of the modern world.
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Os Guinness summarizes it well
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Followers of Christ are custodians of the faith passed on down the running centuries.
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Never must we allow anyone outside or inside the church to become cannibals who devour the truth and meaning of this priceless heritage of faith. Letting the church be the church and the gospel be the gospel is integral to letting God be God
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WHAT’S NEXT?
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Nothing is compromised by learning about the culture in which one lives, nor by trying to think like they think. We cannot retreat out of the world to win the world. But while learning about our culture, we must not adopt the philosophy and life-style that is contrary to God. Retreat is wrong and capitulation is wrong, but infiltration with confrontation must be accomplished.
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Four areas in which the Christian must keep the right balance in a postmodern age
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Truth and Reality Worship and Immanence Culture and Moral Law Repentance and Faith
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Truth and Reality
Ephesians 6:14
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“Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth,…” 2 John 1:2
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“…for the sake of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever: …” Today as in no other time truth is under attack – the very existence of truth as a possibility is denied
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Truth and Reality
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We must not attempt to create truth based on feelings or experience
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We must be careful of evangelistic stealth ministries. If we are trying to draw the postmodern into our churches by presenting the things he likes (music, style, language, technology, etc) while at the same time hiding fundamental Christian practices (prayer, communion, baptism, self-denial, piety), it will backfire on us
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Worship and Immanence
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We are not to create the illusion of God’s presence
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The more “real” the worship service seems, the less a postmodern person needs or wants anything beyond that.
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Culture and Moral Law
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We are coming dangerously close to believing that culture is morally neutral.
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We ought to remember that the root of culture is “cult.” It is a society, or at least the norms of a society, that have been formulated by the members of that cult.
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Culture and Moral Law
That is why John Leo can decry the absence of truth by saying, “This casualness in popular culture is reinforced by trends in the intellectual world which hold that truth is socially constructed and doesn’t exist in the real world.” John Leo, “This column is mostly true,” U.S. News & World Report, December 16, 1996, 17
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Culture and Moral Law
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Edward O. Wilson writes, “If these premises are correct, it follows that one culture is as good as any other in the expression of truth and morality, each in its own special way.” Edward O. Wilson, “Back From Chaos,” The Atlantic Monthly, March, 1998, 58.
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Repentance and Faith
A.W. Tozer wrote, “To the question, ‘What must I do to be saved?’ we must learn the correct answer. To fail here is not to gamble with our souls; it is to guarantee eternal banishment from the face of God. Here we must be right or be finally lost.” A.W. Tozer, The Best Of A.W. Tozer (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1991), 100.
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Repentance and Faith
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Repentance is based on a belief that we have something to “repent” from.
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A standard must be present – however, more people come to church if they are not confronted with the need to repent
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It is not success for a Christian simply to “build a church” or “gather a crowd.”
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Conclusion
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1 Peter 3:15 “…but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence; …”
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Christians must know and live the truth if they are to defend it -
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Conclusion
John 8:32 and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me.
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Conclusion
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When we stand before Christ we will be asked to give account of “how” we built on the foundation, not “how much.” Our stewardship is to proclaim what our King has given us to proclaim. It is an awesome task and sometimes we feel inadequate. But the rewards for faithful service will be worth it all.
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John 3:16 1 Corinthians 13
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AGAPE LOVE
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EZEKIEL 33: 7-9
"Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. When I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you will surely die and you do not speak out to dissuade him from his ways, that wicked man will die for his sin and I will hold you accountable for his blood. But if you do warn the wicked man to turn from his ways and he does not do so, he will die for his sin, but you will have saved yourself
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And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15 WHAT IF THE BIBLE IS TRUE?
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Only by receiving Christ as our Savior for the forgiveness of sin can we be saved from the wrath that is to come. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
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RESPONSIBILITY FOR EACH ONE
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Responsibility lies with every individual to choose to accept Christ as Savior. People cannot give the excuse: “What about all those who have never heard the gospel? God told Jeremiah, “You will find Me when you search and seek for me with all your heart.”(Jeremiah 29:13)
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THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH
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Most people don’t think sin is an important issue. Claim they have the right to live "any way they want." Everything is just a matter of opinion. Not so.
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The wages of sin is still death and it is still true we have all sinned and fallen far short of God’s expectations.
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GUESS WHAT YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD Matthew 5:14 "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
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IF WE DON’T DO IT HE WILL
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Will We Be Held Responsible?
What if the Bible is true?
If not me who? If not now when?
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WOW! I thought Pastor Blab the “Babel Rouser” would never finish this one!
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